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R
Python
SQL
C++
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Open Source Contributions

All projects available at github.com/JayCastro/<name>

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See full CV at nickstrayer.me/cv for more complete list of positions and publications.

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Last updated on 2020-10-06.

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Jacob Castro

Im a student from Arizon State University who is looking for an oppurtunity as a data science student that allows me to build tools using visualization and machine learning to help people explore and understand their data.

I have a huge interest in Sports Analytics.

Education

MS. Program Evaluation and Data Analytics

University of Arizona

Tempe, Arizona

2021 - 2020

  • program evaluation and data analytics is a professional degree program that emphasizes skills needed to leverage data to improve organizational performance in the public, nonprofit and private sectors.

B.S., Business Admistration: Concentration In M.I.S and Management

University of Massachusetts, Lowell

Lowell, Massachusetts

2018 - 2015

  • Learned the basics of computers and computer software for programming.

B.S., Undeclared

University of Massachusetts, Lowell

University of Massachusets, Dartmouth

2015 - 2014

  • Where I figured out what major I wanted to pursue

Selected Positions

Sports Analyst

New York Knicks

New York, New York

2022

  • Work and Learn enough to work for the Knicks front office and make the right decisions to have them becime chapions after decades of drought.

Youtuber

Youtube.com/JayAnalytics

Lawrence, MA

2021

  • Develop a channel to help people understand the game within the game. Make content weekly on mostly basketball games.
  • This will be in the works starting December.

BestBuy Sales

Appliances

Salem. NH

2020 - 2015

  • Sales Associate for Pacific Sales found in Bestbuy

Kmart

Cashier

Tewksburt, MA

2014 - 2013

  • Basic Cashier position

Selected Writing

Using AWK and R to Parse 25tb

LiveFreeOrDichotomize.com

N/A

2019

  • Story of parsing large amounts of genomics data.
  • Provided advice for dealing with data much larger than disk.
  • Reached top of HackerNews.

The United States of Seasons

LiveFreeOrDichotomize.com

N/A

2018

  • GIS analysis of weather data to find the most ‘seasonal’ locations in United States
  • Used Bayesian regression methods for smoothing sparse geospatial data.

A year as told by fitbit

LiveFreeOrDichotomize.com

N/A

2017

  • Analyzing a full years worth of second-level heart rate data from wearable device.
  • Demonstrated visualization-based inference for large data.

MCMC and the case of the spilled seeds

LiveFreeOrDichotomize.com

N/A

2017

  • Full Bayesian MCMC sampler running in your browser.
  • Coded from scratch in vanilla Javascript.